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Ma Cuisine. Escoffier voor iedereen.  cover art

Ma Cuisine. Escoffier voor iedereen.

In Dutch. Al 20 jaar is de Nederlandse vertaling uitverkocht maar nu zal eindelijk de herdruk van de bijbel voor amateurkoks verschijnen, voor het eerst uitgebreid met 48 kleurenfoto’s van gerechten die volgens Ma Cuisine receptuur zijn bereid. Naast zijn wereldberoemde kookboek ... More info
Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography: John Spilsbury and Early Dissected Puzzles. cover art

Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography: John Spilsbu...

SOFTCOVER VERSION. (hardcover version is out of print at the moment). John Spilsbury, who styled himself an "Engraver and Map Dissector in Wood, in Order to Facilitate the Teaching of Geography," is credited with the invention of "dissected maps" hand-colored maps, printed from copper plates, which ... More info
Printed Cookbooks in Europe, 1470-1700:  A Bibliography of Early Modern Culinary Literature  cover art

Printed Cookbooks in Europe, 1470-1700: A Bibliography of Early Modern Culinary Literature

Co-publication. Sales Rights: Europe. Available in the USA from OAK KNOLL PRESS (ISBN 9781584562535). First edition. This is the first bibliography to list all known editions of printed cookbooks published in Europe before 1700. More than a hundred titles in at least 650 editions were printed in fo... More info
Silver from Early Byzantium: The Kaper Koraon and Related Treasures  cover art

Silver from Early Byzantium: The Kaper Koraon and Related Treasures

Silver played an important role in establishing patterns of patronage in the Eastern Roman Empire, particularly in churches, which were endowed with large quantities of the precious metal, both as furniture revetments and as liturgical objects.  This landmark publication treats one of the most impor... More info
Such Constant Affectionate Care:  Lady Charlotte Finch - Royal Governess & the Children of George II. cover art

Such Constant Affectionate Care: Lady Charlotte Finch - Royal Governess & the Children of George II.

SOFTCOVER. Also available in hardcover version. Color photographs, illustrations, and reproductions. Taking as its starting point the set of sixteen dissected maps belonging to the children of George III , this work examines the new trends in education exemplified by the practices of the royal nurse... More info
Summer on the Lakes in 1843.  cover art

Summer on the Lakes in 1843.

Facsimile of the first edition, published in Boston in 1844, of this classic travel account by one of the leading American feminists and transcendentalists of the nineteenth century, Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). Summer on the lakes relates of Fuller’s visits to various Native American tribes i... More info
The compleat angler.  cover art

The compleat angler.

London, 1653. Facsimile 1969. Limited edition. More info
The Dutch Language Press in America. Two Centuries of Printing, Publishing and Bookselling.  cover art

The Dutch Language Press in America. Two Centuries of Printing, Publishing and Bookselling.

Contents: Introduction - The Foreign Language Press in America - The Dutch in America - Dutch American Printing, Publishing and Bookselling - Bibliographic Inventory of Dutch American Imprints (1693-1948) - Bibliography - Index. More info
The Game of Chess. Marco Girolamo Vida`s Scacchia Ludus. With English verse translation and the text of the three earlier versions edited with Introduction and Notes.  cover art

The Game of Chess. Marco Girolamo Vida`s Scacchia Ludus. With English verse translation and the text of the th...

This volume presents the four extant versions of Vida`s mythological poem Scacchia Ludus, together with an Introduction and an English verse translation. More info
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